- Change definition of teaching
- Emphasize how, where to learn information rather than memorization
- Foster/encourage creative thinking problem/solving with student initiated projects
- Teach students to be more independent learners
- Teach critical thinking skills
- Emphasize vertical learning of concepts (integration through years)
- Research how to achieve "the old" skill and accomplish in a new way
- Dont segregate math classes tech math 101, 102 and so on and have it be integrated
Time (27 dots)
- Times create a structure (and give them time to) shared reflection
- Time during the school year to plan- asses- reevaluate the curriculum
- Friday afternoon student free free for teacher collaboration-creativity
- Give teachers time to rethink their ideas. planning.
- Give teachers time to think and learn and practice new tools
- As administrators: allow time for faculty to collaborate/discuss about "teaching"
- Encourage participation in online communities (nings) develop PLNs so teacher can learn "when convenient"
- Set aside part of class time for curriculum/subject matter. Set aside other part of class for reflection and technology-based ideas
- Have all teachers collaborate by team and subject matter online
- Podcasts will allow tutorials on an individuals own time. Suggest individual and group watching
- Use wed meeting for tech training
- Ning/Wiki. Time for F2F meetings
- Talk to Eileen about making tech a priority timewise
- Make discussion meetings agenda a discussion
- Replace grade level meetings with grade level curricular goal meetings
- Replace all school meetings with showcase/workshops by lead teacher
Culture (19 dots)
- Ask parents to back off of what "they think" is the best way (tradtional) to teach
- Less upper level pressure to complete topics and more pressure to be creative
- Slowly change the culture of teaching and learning
- Initiate cross- classroom activities for these stubborn teachers to ease them into it
- Have incentives/contests for most creative use of tech in class (recognition)
- Change system of teching content by showing how students learn better via tech tools, not content
- Parish-ucou" students explain how they learn best
- Let students create (video) testimonials about how they learn best (share with teachers)
Schedule (13 dots)
- Year round schools
- Extra planning period dedicated to learning new tools
- Elimination of foreign language program in lower school for learning lab
- Do away with traditional schedule/replace it with learning networks
- Have more time with each class during a rotation
- Look at schedules of "fast horses"- get them more time to innovate, plan, etc
- Have a time set aside for teachers to discuss what they wish they could change about their curriculum and brainstorm solutions
- Scheduling of "project periods"
Training/PD (23 dots)
- More sources for math teachers (how "to" lessons)
- Professional development
- Double salary of innovators (1/2 salary for traditional)
- Get at the roots of why we do what we do. Is it the best way?
- 1A. Require faculty to prepare personalized professional development goals. 1B. Require faculty to meet minimum perf. standards
- Require faculty to attend PD sessions that meet schools wide goals and initiatives
- 2A Provide space for self assessment. 2B. peer assessment. 2C. Student assessment of faculty
- 3A. self study, 3B. 1:1 training. 3C. interest group training (small group) 3D. Large group- philosophy,-mutual goals
- Two days of no students and teaching training on technology
- Give teachers the tools to learn on their own- atomic learning, youtube, etc
- A tech person who comes to you and asks what you are studying and then brainstorms with you
- "safe" one-on-one training with step by step "idiots guide" directions
- Professional development tutoring time with faculty preset and scheduled.
- Assign teacher new technology and have them present it
- Action research days
- Teachers use this day to explore
- Teacher will overcome their stubbornness to teach with technology by being given more workshops to gain confidence with new tools
- Deintensify the language of technology
- More hangs on training for teachers who have been teaching for years
- Assess what teachers are doing and assess them
- Change professional development requirements (in the works)
- Mandatory knowledge of certain programs for all teachers... maybe students
- Teachers given (or forced to take) sabbatical years to learn something new
- Require teachers to spend 20% of their day learning something new
- Require teacher to change at least 1 unite a year ( cannot use any previous material)
Best Practices (13 dots)
- Give teacher opportunity to develop/join committees in areas of interest to them and report at all school meetings
- Teachers share successes with use of own examples. This will inspire other teachers to "get on board"
- Change grade based education system to one of demonstration of mastery
- Show teachers what a student centered classroom in action looks like
- De- emphasis of standardized testing (teachers would relax..sort of)
- Wait for kids to outgrow us
- Community of practice
- Find examples of proven success
- Teachers working together to team teach subjects
Pedagogy (9 dots)
- Barrier-classroom structure. Situate the desks into groups. Instead of main projector at front, use laptops
- Student enforced ownership
- Students sign up to work on different projects (creativity week)
- Educate teachers! If they do not know what they dont know, show them
- Engage schoolwide discussion of our curricular goals. depth, discussion, and grade level
- Deliver the pedagogy and not just the tools to teachers
Assessment (10 dots)
- Eliminate grades
- Take away grades
- Change AP testing system
- Get rid of moderated tests for high school and just use the college entry exams (general)
- Remove AP from the course
- Passion projects- senior/12th grade "exit" presentations RE: what/how they learned in school
- Make portfolios the major portion of college admissions
- Alternate ways of assessment: Reflections on learning!
- Post Grad year- do not allow anyone to get a diploma until they have pursued a "path of inquiry" for a year after high school
- Judge success by the job a student gets instead of the college they get into
- No grades on integrated project
Parents (3 dots)
- Informed parents! Have parents come into the classroom to participate in the learning
- Share with students/parents on what we consider "learning"
- Parent/student info- inform parents and students about education
- Parent/teacher conferences- students lead discussion with parents/ teacher only answers questions
- Marketing and Parish after dark. Share PLP with parents
Resources (4 dots)
- Have tutorials, ideals, sites in 1 common, easily accessible place
- Have furniture options available when a teacher wants to rearrange
- Access to ample project examples
- Laptops for all students
- A PAID extra 4 days a week for nothing but innovation creation
Staffing (2 dots)
- Technology "teacher aids"
- In classroom consultants to help teachers effect change (conquer fear)
- Teacher less grades?
- Re-evaluate contracts of those who refuse to grown, innovate, etc
- Team teaching across subjects not grades
Community (3 dots)
- Community discussion debate the skills canon as well as the content canon
- Information. Give pepole the information they need to understand what they are afraid of. Kills the fear of the unknown
- Community show and model respect for others` passions; demand respect for yours
- Generation of expert pool of visionaries sharing their ideas
- Expose teachers to create their ideas
Learning spaces (1 dot)
- Teach from home (Skype, Twitter, Facebook, etc)
- Go paperless
Curriculum (9 dots)
- Include technology literacy as part of the integrated curriculum
- More cross-curricular integration; Projects that allow all skills to be utilized.
- Allow students to have a say on their learning how and what
- Drop the AP program
- Say no to AP Exams. Create curriculum that really matter
- Change structure of classroom and instruction
- Let go of the idea that there is only "1" set of curriculum
Marketing (3 dots)
- School focuses on "great stories" and share them in every conceivable way possible
- Create a "change the world" design from in your school (faculty and students)
Philosophy of Education (17 dots)
- Change definition of teaching
- Emphasize how, where to learn information rather than memorization
- Foster/encourage creative thinking problem/solving with student initiated projects
- Teach students to be more independent learners
- Teach critical thinking skills
- Emphasize vertical learning of concepts (integration through years)
- Research how to achieve "the old" skill and accomplish in a new way
- Dont segregate math classes tech math 101, 102 and so on and have it be integrated
Time (27 dots)
- Times create a structure (and give them time to) shared reflection
- Time during the school year to plan- asses- reevaluate the curriculum
- Friday afternoon student free free for teacher collaboration-creativity
- Give teachers time to rethink their ideas. planning.
- Give teachers time to think and learn and practice new tools
- As administrators: allow time for faculty to collaborate/discuss about "teaching"
- Encourage participation in online communities (nings) develop PLNs so teacher can learn "when convenient"
- Set aside part of class time for curriculum/subject matter. Set aside other part of class for reflection and technology-based ideas
- Have all teachers collaborate by team and subject matter online
- Podcasts will allow tutorials on an individuals own time. Suggest individual and group watching
- Use wed meeting for tech training
- Ning/Wiki. Time for F2F meetings
- Talk to Eileen about making tech a priority timewise
- Make discussion meetings agenda a discussion
- Replace grade level meetings with grade level curricular goal meetings
- Replace all school meetings with showcase/workshops by lead teacher
Culture (19 dots)
- Ask parents to back off of what "they think" is the best way (tradtional) to teach
- Less upper level pressure to complete topics and more pressure to be creative
- Slowly change the culture of teaching and learning
- Initiate cross- classroom activities for these stubborn teachers to ease them into it
- Have incentives/contests for most creative use of tech in class (recognition)
- Change system of teching content by showing how students learn better via tech tools, not content
- Parish-ucou" students explain how they learn best
- Let students create (video) testimonials about how they learn best (share with teachers)
Schedule (13 dots)
- Year round schools- Extra planning period dedicated to learning new tools
- Elimination of foreign language program in lower school for learning lab
- Do away with traditional schedule/replace it with learning networks
- Have more time with each class during a rotation
- Look at schedules of "fast horses"- get them more time to innovate, plan, etc
- Have a time set aside for teachers to discuss what they wish they could change about their curriculum and brainstorm solutions
- Scheduling of "project periods"
Training/PD (23 dots)
- More sources for math teachers (how "to" lessons)- Professional development
- Double salary of innovators (1/2 salary for traditional)
- Get at the roots of why we do what we do. Is it the best way?
- 1A. Require faculty to prepare personalized professional development goals. 1B. Require faculty to meet minimum perf. standards
- Require faculty to attend PD sessions that meet schools wide goals and initiatives
- 2A Provide space for self assessment. 2B. peer assessment. 2C. Student assessment of faculty
- 3A. self study, 3B. 1:1 training. 3C. interest group training (small group) 3D. Large group- philosophy,-mutual goals
- Two days of no students and teaching training on technology
- Give teachers the tools to learn on their own- atomic learning, youtube, etc
- A tech person who comes to you and asks what you are studying and then brainstorms with you
- "safe" one-on-one training with step by step "idiots guide" directions
- Professional development tutoring time with faculty preset and scheduled.
- Assign teacher new technology and have them present it
- Action research days
- Teachers use this day to explore
- Teacher will overcome their stubbornness to teach with technology by being given more workshops to gain confidence with new tools
- Deintensify the language of technology
- More hangs on training for teachers who have been teaching for years
- Assess what teachers are doing and assess them
- Change professional development requirements (in the works)
- Mandatory knowledge of certain programs for all teachers... maybe students
- Teachers given (or forced to take) sabbatical years to learn something new
- Require teachers to spend 20% of their day learning something new
- Require teacher to change at least 1 unite a year ( cannot use any previous material)
Best Practices (13 dots)
- Give teacher opportunity to develop/join committees in areas of interest to them and report at all school meetings- Teachers share successes with use of own examples. This will inspire other teachers to "get on board"
- Change grade based education system to one of demonstration of mastery
- Show teachers what a student centered classroom in action looks like
- De- emphasis of standardized testing (teachers would relax..sort of)
- Wait for kids to outgrow us
- Community of practice
- Find examples of proven success
- Teachers working together to team teach subjects
Pedagogy (9 dots)
- Barrier-classroom structure. Situate the desks into groups. Instead of main projector at front, use laptops- Student enforced ownership
- Students sign up to work on different projects (creativity week)
- Educate teachers! If they do not know what they dont know, show them
- Engage schoolwide discussion of our curricular goals. depth, discussion, and grade level
- Deliver the pedagogy and not just the tools to teachers
Assessment (10 dots)
- Eliminate grades- Take away grades
- Change AP testing system
- Get rid of moderated tests for high school and just use the college entry exams (general)
- Remove AP from the course
- Passion projects- senior/12th grade "exit" presentations RE: what/how they learned in school
- Make portfolios the major portion of college admissions
- Alternate ways of assessment: Reflections on learning!
- Post Grad year- do not allow anyone to get a diploma until they have pursued a "path of inquiry" for a year after high school
- Judge success by the job a student gets instead of the college they get into
- No grades on integrated project
Parents (3 dots)
- Informed parents! Have parents come into the classroom to participate in the learning- Share with students/parents on what we consider "learning"
- Parent/student info- inform parents and students about education
- Parent/teacher conferences- students lead discussion with parents/ teacher only answers questions
- Marketing and Parish after dark. Share PLP with parents
Resources (4 dots)
- Have tutorials, ideals, sites in 1 common, easily accessible place- Have furniture options available when a teacher wants to rearrange
- Access to ample project examples
- Laptops for all students
- A PAID extra 4 days a week for nothing but innovation creation
Staffing (2 dots)
- Technology "teacher aids"- In classroom consultants to help teachers effect change (conquer fear)
- Teacher less grades?
- Re-evaluate contracts of those who refuse to grown, innovate, etc
- Team teaching across subjects not grades
Community (3 dots)
- Community discussion debate the skills canon as well as the content canon- Information. Give pepole the information they need to understand what they are afraid of. Kills the fear of the unknown
- Community show and model respect for others` passions; demand respect for yours
- Generation of expert pool of visionaries sharing their ideas
- Expose teachers to create their ideas
Learning spaces (1 dot)
- Teach from home (Skype, Twitter, Facebook, etc)- Go paperless
Curriculum (9 dots)
- Include technology literacy as part of the integrated curriculum- More cross-curricular integration; Projects that allow all skills to be utilized.
- Allow students to have a say on their learning how and what
- Drop the AP program
- Say no to AP Exams. Create curriculum that really matter
- Change structure of classroom and instruction
- Let go of the idea that there is only "1" set of curriculum
Marketing (3 dots)
- School focuses on "great stories" and share them in every conceivable way possible- Create a "change the world" design from in your school (faculty and students)